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Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

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Scientists in Paris discovered two new substances with incredible radioactivity. It earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics but would ultimately kill one of them. When you purchase through links on our ...

In an earlier blog post about Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster movie, Interstellar, I lauded the film for its ambition, ...

Noah Wyle and his castmates turned one harrowing day at an E.R. into an unforgettable season of television. Can they do it ...

During the Cold War, two physicists became public "opponents" of the Pentagon's antiballistic missile systems. But they kept ...

Dealing the fatal blow, when the creature emerged from the cave, was a Rhyl chimney sweep called Thomas Hughes. Having “slain ...

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